Creating ocular prosthetics using parametric modelling: Developing an new workflow for the parametric 3D-modelling of ultra-personalized ocular prosthetics

In the Netherlands roughly 20.000 people wear an ocular prosthetic as a consequence of losing their eye due to an accident or disease. An ocular prosthetic is a type of facial prosthesis that replaces an absent natural eye. The main goal of an ocular prosthetic is to provide an aesthetic replacement of a real eye. It does not restore the ability...

Automatic Measurement of The Human Upper Limb Dimensions for Prosthetic Socket: The Multiple Statistical Shape Model Approach

An upper limb prosthesis, i.e. a hand prosthesis, is a device to replace the function of an upper limb on upper limb amputees. In developing countries, amputees’ access to the device is scarce to unavailable. In addition to the absence of experts in those areas, currently there are no automatic measurement methods for upper limb amputees...

The Hybrid Finger: Combining Nature with Technology into a 3D Printed Finger for a Hand Prosthesis with Minimized Assembly

Access to prosthetics is very limited to many potential<br/>users, while the need is high. There are two main reasons<br/>for this that both are related to the production of prosthetics: the lack of skilled people and high costs. Minimized<br/>assembly production using 3D printing could be a solution: no training is required, assembly takes only...